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OpenAI News Jul 28 Score 0.9499878587962964

Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI

A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and beyond.

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Schneier on Security Jul 29 Score 0.8896292657407406

Measuring LLMs’ Ability to Perform Cryptanalysis

There's new benchmark measuring AI's ability to perform mathematical cryptanalysis. Anthropic's frontier model actually found new attacks. The benchmark: " CryptanalysisBench: Can LLMs do Cryptanalysis? " The idea is to benchmark the ability of LLMs to discove

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 28 Score 0.8845882129629629

Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude

Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude The best part of this article (here's the repo ) about how Anthropic researchers used Claude Mythos to find mathematical flaws in both HAWK and a weaker version of AES ("neither of these results has a practical

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 28 Score 0.8834854351851851

Quoting Akshat Bubna

We’re aware a Modal customer published an unauthenticated endpoint that allowed ​anyone on the internet to use ​their ⁠sandboxes for code execution. This was used by the rogue agent. Modal’s ⁠platform ​or isolation were not ​compromised in anyway. — Aksh

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 28 Score 0.8830886759259259

uv 0.12.0

uv 0.12.0 Some interesting breaking changes in this release of uv , in particular to the default project produced by the uv init command. uv init is the uv shortcut for creating a new project. The previous version of uv , version 0.11.x, produced this director

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Foreign Policy Jul 28 Score 0.8815004550925924

Scandal Exposes Limits of China’s Scientific Rise

The death of a child during an experimental gene-editing trial renews questions about biotech ethics and ambitions.

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Foreign Policy Jul 28 Score 0.8797009180555555

Trump’s Diplomatic Doubleheader

The leaders of Ukraine and Israel both came to Washington to curry U.S. favor.

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Foreign Policy Jul 28 Score 0.8756573995370369

Compromised Candidates

How backroom deals shape the race for secretary-general and prevent U.N. reform.

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Schneier on Security Jul 28 Score 0.8651686175925926

Axon Is Another License Plate Surveillance Company

Governments are switching, but I'm not sure it makes a difference : …some municipalities, including Denver, Colorado, are ditching their Flock arrays. But keep in mind that if they're only switching from Flock to another brand of license-plate readers, l

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Jul 28 Score 0.8405001333333333

Retail investors should beware perpetual futures

These peculiar products, popular in the crypto world, are hitting the mainstream

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SANS Internet Storm Center Jul 29 Score 0.8242274074074075

Apple Patches Everything (July 2026), (Wed, Jul 29th)

I am a bit late with this summary, but this week Apple released updates to all its operating systems and Safari. The Safari update, as usual, targets macOS prior to macOS 26. macOS updates covered the two older versions (14 and 15), while other operating syste

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War on the Rocks Jul 29 Score 0.8241652361111111

Parsing Trump’s Decision to (Maybe) Give Uranium Enrichment to Saudi Arabia

On June 22, the United States announced that it had signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. This type of agreement broadly authorizes trade in nuclear technology, equipment, and materials, but only if the agreement and the country in question

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Foreign Affairs Jul 29 Score 0.8183211907407408

How to Reindustrialize America

The case for a strategic investment fund.

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The Verge Jul 28 Score 0.8093732351851852

The US is banning foreign robots

The US government is targeting China with a new import ban on "advanced robotic devices" and power inverters made in foreign countries, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission says the ban will inclu

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The Verge Jul 28 Score 0.8080107351851853

Ariana Grande is suing the hackers who've been leaking her songs and videos for years

Ariana Grande filed a lawsuit on Monday in the Los Angeles County Superior Court against the currently unidentified hackers who allegedly stole and leaked private content. It aims to "uncover the identities of these currently unknown and unscrupulous individua

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The Verge Jul 28 Score 0.8069649018518519

eBay's bizarre cyberstalking saga ends with a $56 million settlement

eBay and three former executives will pay $55.7 million as part of a settlement with a Massachusetts couple targeted with a bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign in 2019, as reported earlier by CNBC. The settlement will resolve a lengthy legal saga tha

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The Verge Jul 28 Score 0.8069649018518519

The union drive at the Wikimedia Foundation is expanding

In June, UK staff at the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia became the first to announce their intention to form a union. Now, US-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation are joining the union drive, but management at the nonprofit has declined to voluntarily re

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BleepingComputer Jul 28 Score 0.8060186087962964

OpenAI models used Artifactory zero-days to escape to the internet

JFrog has confirmed that OpenAI models exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in self-hosted Artifactory servers to help escape an isolated testing environment and gain access to the internet before attacking Hugging Face. [...]

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The Verge Jul 28 Score 0.8046186055555556

AI leaders sign a statement asking the government to do something about automated AI

Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development - or at least a spe

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BleepingComputer Jul 28 Score 0.8027954606481482

CISA shares advice on isolating vital systems during cyberattacks

The U.S. and Australian governments have released new guidance urging critical infrastructure organizations to prepare to isolate vital operational technology systems in the event of a cyberattack or other major disruptions. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jul 28 Score 0.7949926828703704

Is Your SSO Protected Against Modern Credential Attacks?

A compromised SSO login can provide attackers with access to multiple enterprise applications and services. Specops Software explains how stronger passwords, phishing-resistant MFA, and identity hardening help secure modern SSO environments and the application

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Google AI Blog Jul 28 Score 0.7933211472222222

5 ways AI Mode in Search helps you enjoy the real world

It might sound counterintuitive, but Search's AI tools can actually help you make the most of your time offline whether you want to book concert tickets or find the perf…

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MIT Technology Review Jul 28 Score 0.7919319962962964

The Download: OpenAI's predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.  —Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI edi

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 28 Score 0.7916546314814815

CI Fortify – Advice for isolating vital systems

CI Fortify – Advice for isolating vital systems CISA and the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC), in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and international partners, released joint guidance CI Fortif

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 28 Score 0.7916546314814815

MikroTik RouterOS and Cloud Hosted Router

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow attackers to rapidly guess passwords and gain unauthorized system access. The following versions of MikroTik RouterOS and Cloud Hosted Router are affected: RouterOS vers:all/* (CVE-202

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 28 Score 0.7916546314814815

Siemens Mendix Runtime

View CSAF Summary Mendix documentation for access rules does not adequately describe the special behavior of the System.User entity, leaving developers without sufficient guidance to configure access rules securely. This documentation gap may lead application

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 28 Score 0.7916546310185186

Siemens SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced

View CSAF Summary SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced contains a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition. Siemens is preparing fix versions and recommends specific countermeasures for products where fixes are not, or not yet av

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MIT Technology Review Jul 28 Score 0.7871806074074075

Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix

Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, clocks out when his shift ends. He used to work longer hours, going the extra mile to excel at his projects. But lately, he’s been coming straight home to work on his job application for the chipmaker’s Sou

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Game Developer Jul 28 Score 0.7538147800925927

Quest maker Meta is having its cake and eating it

Meta has confirmed it will spend billions on a new AI data center in Texas just months after raising Quest prices due to an AI-driven memory shortage.

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NASA News Jul 29 Score 0.743321412962963

Sizing Up the Sargassum Belt

Seaweed composing the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt hit near-record levels in June 2026, with the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of America both reaching all-time highs.

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 28 Score 0.7324755680555556

Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight

Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.

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TechCrunch Jul 28 Score 0.7285792717592593

Ozlo's Sleepbuds 2 build on Bose's sleep earbud legacy

Ozlo’s first major update to its sleep earbuds introduces longer battery life, improved connectivity, enhanced audio, and new sleep features as the startup continues the product line once abandoned by Bose.

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InfoQ Jul 28 Score 0.7283204310185185

GitHub Introduces Default "Cooldown" Policy for Dependabot Version Updates

Instead of immediately opening pull requests when newer dependency versions are released, Dependabot now waits three days before suggesting upgrades, thus increasing the likelihood that malicious releases are identified and removed before they can be integrate

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GitHub Blog Jul 28 Score 0.7233207712962963

Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions

Explore the changes we've shipped across npm and GitHub Actions over the past few months to disrupt supply chain attack techniques and limit their impact. The post Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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Martin Fowler Jul 28 Score 0.7185984171296296

The Orchestrator's Tax

Subagents get justified by time saved and parallel execution, but Rahul Garg explains that's not what matters most. Every token in the orchestrator's context is competing for its attention, and the real value of a subagent is what it keeps out of that context.

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New Scientist Jul 28 Score 0.7183209861111111

Asteroid strike caused global firestorm that incinerated the dinosaurs

After the Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago, trillions of tonnes of rock vapour was launched into space before falling back to Earth at ballistic speeds, creating a global blast of heat strong enough to broil life on land

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Martin Fowler Jul 28 Score 0.7175428615740741

Why I’m Writing Rachel’s Ramblings

TL;DR I have ideas. I haven’t been writing them. That’s about to change. I promise… myself. I’ve been thinking a lot about talent. Actually, I’ve been thinking a lot about thinking. And writing. Or more specifically, not writing. This really hit me earlier thi

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InfoQ Jul 28 Score 0.7166537643518518

Grafana Assistant Expands to More Than 30 Data Sources

Grafana Labs has expanded the capabilities of Grafana Assistant, enabling its AI-powered observability assistant to query and correlate data across more than 30 different data sources through natural language. By Craig Risi

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 28 Score 0.7163232157407408

Misfolded insulin may be quietly driving diabetes

Researchers found that insulin-producing cells depend on a team of helper proteins to keep insulin production on track. When one key partner was missing, damaged proteins built up and the cells made less insulin. Strengthening this system could offer a new way

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 28 Score 0.7154528453703703

Hidden charcoal reveals the true age of ancient cave paintings

A new analysis has precisely dated paintings in France’s Font-de-Gaume cave for the first time. Scientists discovered charcoal inside black pigments once thought to contain only minerals, allowing them to use radiocarbon dating. The results show that a bison w

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Rest of World Jul 28 Score 0.7133402407407408

Indian EV makers beat Tesla and BYD on energy efficiency

Tata Motors and Mahindra topped a global ranking of battery efficiency, showing India's strength in building frugal electric cars — even as they lag on charging speed and driving range.

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InfoQ Jul 28 Score 0.7117093199074074

Remix 3 Beta Preview Ditches React for a Web-Standards Full-Stack Framework

Remix 3 is a full-stack web framework that moves away from React, focusing on web platform primitives. It integrates routes, request handlers, and UI components into a single structure, utilizing a forked Preact for the frontend. Unlike previous versions, it e

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InfoQ Jul 28 Score 0.7116537643518519

Article: The Hard-Stop Rule: From 3 HCM Monoliths to 120 Domain Microservices

A payroll and HR software team rebuilt three monoliths into over 120 smaller services over five years, with no dedicated migration budget. Every new feature was built as its own service instead of changing the old ones. The article covers the pull-based migrat

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Marginal Revolution Jul 29 Score 0.7107629587962963

Data on Chinese innovation

China's technological progress in recent decades has been viewed with admiration, alarm, and (in some cases) doubt. To better understand the Chinese innovation ecosystem, we compile a dataset of almost 14 million domestic Chinese patent publications. We focus

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Marginal Revolution Jul 29 Score 0.7072870328703703

You will learn to love AI writing

That is the theme of my latest Free Press article, excerpt: But do I wish to eschew AI writing for the rest of my life? Absolutely not. Most of all, I want AI writing to get better, so it does not irritate me with its clichés and all too obvious identifying ma

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 28 Score 0.7072491416666666

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft aces Mars flyby capturing stunning timelapse video

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft aced its Mars flyby, using the planet’s gravity to speed toward its 2029 encounter with a metal-rich asteroid. The spacecraft tested its cameras, magnetometer, and particle-detecting instruments, capturing unusual views of Mars and mea

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 28 Score 0.7065060861111111

Blazing like 10 billion suns: NASA’s Swift sees a wandering black hole devouring a star

NASA’s Swift Observatory observed a supermassive black hole ripping apart a star more than 30,000 light-years from the center of a distant galaxy. The extraordinary flare briefly outshone its entire host galaxy in ultraviolet light and revealed a black hole ab

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 28 Score 0.7038250675925926

Twisted laser light can tell mirror-image molecules apart

Scientists have created twisted laser beams that interact differently with right-handed and left-handed molecules, revealing their identity through the fragments they produce. The approach could provide a faster, simpler, and more sensitive way to analyze impo

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CNCF Blog Jul 29 Score 0.6991539814814814

Lima v2.2: Windows guests and TPM 2.0 emulation

Following macOS and FreeBSD guests in v2.1, Lima v2.2 takes the next big step: Windows guest support. With this release, a single `limactl` workflow can now boot Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and Windows virtual machines. Lima v2.2...

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CNCF Blog Jul 28 Score 0.6982905555555554

How Japan's 250% Training Surge is Shaping Global AI Talent

The first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan took place in Tokyo in June 2025 and kicked off a cloud native skills boom in the region. In the twelve months since the conference, Kubernetes exams taken in Japan...

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Marginal Revolution Jul 28 Score 0.6950986069444444

Congratulations to Ross D. and others

Ross Douthat, an opinion columnist at The New York Times, is leaving to join the CBS News program “60 Minutes” as a correspondent, the show’s executive producer said in a memo to staff on Tuesday. Mr. Douthat is among a group of journalists joining for the sho

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Marginal Revolution Jul 28 Score 0.686591199537037

Tuesday assorted links

1. The economics of personal holding companies, including in the Nordics. 2. Jongkuch Mach is a good name for a very tall basketball player. 3. Can AI predict who will be the most important philosopher in 2046? For economics, the top pick of GPT Pro is Ludwig

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